| ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The museum is located on the ground floor of a nineteenth century The Hague town house in Archipelbuurt, the quarter of town where many characters from Couperus’s novels dwell. Couperus knew the neighbourhood well. When a boy, he lived at Nassauplein and he wrote his first novel, Eline Vere, around the corner from the museum in 20, Surinamestraat. Since 1963, the square in front has a bronze bust of the writer.
Louis Couperus never lived at 17, Javastraat. This house belonged to Albert Vogel (1924-1982), a The Hague solo-actor who impersonated Couperus on stage in what he called ‘literary one-man shows’. Also, he published a biography on the author. The Louis Couperus Museum aims at promoting interest in Couperus’s work in The Netherlands and abroad.
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Visitors to the Louis Couperus Museum in 2001. From left to right: Couperus biographer Frédéric Bastet, actors Ton Kuyl and Ellen Vogel, and Alle de Muynck Keizer. Photo: Rob Mostert
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Staff of the Louis Couperus Museum. From left to right: Wim Pronk, Lenny Eichhorn and Vera Timmner. In the background a bronze bust of the author by an unknown sculptor. Photo: Rob Mostert
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Board of the Foundation Louis Couperus Museum
Chairman: mrs. dr. C.A. de Westenholz, art historian & author
Secretary: mr. F.J. Kremer, solicitor
Treasurer: E.M. van Rossum, accountant
General board member: drs. S.A.J. van Faassen, department head of collections of Nederlands Letterkundig Museum & Documentatiecentrum
General board member: drs. J.T.T. Sillevis, chief curator Haags Gemeentemuseum
Curator: mrs. drs. E.M.A. Boer-Dirks, art historian and Dutch language expert
Circle of friends: Louis Couperus Genootschap (Louis Couperus Society)
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